Lucius Postumius Albinus (consul 154 BC)
Lucius Postumius Albinus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.[1] He was curule aedile in 161 BC, and exhibited the Ludi Megalenses, at which Terence's play Eunuchus had debuted.[2] He was consul in 154 BC, and died seven days after he had set out from Rome in order to go to his province. It was supposed that he was poisoned by his wife, Publilia.[3][4]
He was also Flamen Martialis in 168 BC until his death.[5]
Family
[edit]He was apparently son of Spurius Postumius Albinus.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Lucius Postumius Albinus (17)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 92
- ^ Brown, Peter George McCarthy (1996), "Terence", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- ^ Julius Obsequens, 76
- ^ Valerius Maximus, vi. 3. § 8
- ^ Livy, History of Rome, xlv.15.
Political offices
Preceded byP. Cornelius Scipio NasicaM. Claudius Marcellus
Roman consul 154 BCwith Quintus Opimius
Succeeded byManius Acilius Glabrioas suffect
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